Learn to Fly Cast on Your Local Waters Learn to fly cast on your local waters will be among the most enjoyable journeys an angler accomplishes! Your best teacher is the waters you fish since you will be met with many challenges to overcome in the early stages. The more challenges you solve…
Category: Fly Fishers International Conclave
Fly Fishers International Conclave
Fly Fishers International Conclave provides fellowship and sharing of information for all! I have fond memories of the early 90’s meeting almost all of my icons at the National Conclaves.
Gatlinburg, TN hosted the National Conclave in 1995 and I conducted fly casting demos and classes just over the hill from Bryson City, NC. This Conclave was my second introduction to the Fly Fisher Federation.
The FFF also hosted a huge show in Asheville, NC near that same time period. The fly tiers were fantastic in Asheville, NC! I took 26 pages of notes from Jim Stewart from Tampa, FL on spinning deer hair. He was the master of using deer hair.
You can learn more about fly tying in a few days at a conclave than you could ever learn on your own. Now there is YouTube & Vimeo for videos online but I still think the days of great tiers at the conclaves was significant to my development as a tier.
Northwest Expo – Albany, Oregon
The Fly Fishing Northwest FFI Expo in Albany, OR The Fly Fishing Northwest FFI Expo Albany, OR was a great event! Left out of Bryson the morning of the 8th at about 3:00 AM. Drove one of the curviest highways in the country called the tail of the dragon on US 129 to the Knoxville…